Smart motorway? Really? Not when you have outsourced the operation of the gantries to Mis Tilly’s Remedial Class of retards is isn’t.
Lane Closed – Broken Down Lorry. Only if the lorry is an invisible one driven by the Retard’s imaginary friend carrying a full load of air it is you cunts.
Queue ahead – 40 mph – no – queue of traffic driving at 40mph here you cunts – open empty road lies ahead.
What happens – set the gantries and then the retards get put down for nap time or an English lesson made up of rearranging alphabettie spaghetti? Checked the jam cams when I got in – the restrictions are still in place 45 mins later.
I would check again but would end up putting my fist through the computer screen.
Smart Motorway? Retarded Motorway more like.
Nominated by Proper Cunt
Variable Speed Limit Motorways
Rant section: Ok I have had enough. If controlling the flow of traffic can make it all run smoother fine, do it. But that’s not enough is it? It is never enough.
If you have a variable speed limit that means that you can change the legal speed limit and enforce it with courts and databases and you have no choice but to obey or be fined.
Why do that? To control the flow of traffic to make it more efficient? Ok fine as we have said.
To make up for the fact that you have made an extra lane by changing the purpose of the hard shoulder? Ok bullshit but let’s let that slide.
To fucking well slow everyone down because there has been a “report” of some possible hazard, over an unreasonably huge area? No, fuck that you cunts.
Anecdote section:
So, last week I was driving up the M23 to M25 and the heading east along the M25. More than 5 miles before the junction there is a warning sign “Report of pedestrians”. And an advisory (yellow sign) speed limit. Yeah whatever.
As soon as I hit the M25 this advisory limit becomes a legal temporary limit of 50, and it continues for a further 13 miles to Junction 5. WTAF.
I then returned along the same stretch of the M25 going now west, the signs and limit is still there all the way back and then further on towards Leatherhead.
Why? I never saw anyone? Thousands of people had to slow down and worry which stupid cameras actually work for nothing. And I mean worry because when the pathetic signs that aren’t above the gantries say “40” for no bloody good reason and everyone stays at 55, you wonder if anyone gives a shit any more.
But no it’s not enough. Not only had this happened the week before on a small stretch of the M1, but today on the M3 where they have spent hundreds of millions of pounds over 3 years to remove the solid line of paint from the hard shoulder and stick up some more stupid signs, there was another one “report of debris”.
There wasn’t any fucking debris, there was another pointless 50 mph limit, which inexplicably changed to 40. There was also some power crazed moron in some office somewhere more than happy to press a couple of buttons and slow down thousands of people for the sake of hearsay.
Giving power to bureaucrats ostensibly concerned with safety to lord it over thousands of people has never been a good idea, and nor is it in this case. I know how understanding fluid dynamics and applying them to traffic flow can speed the motorway up, but if you’re going to slow everyone down in a 20 mile radius every time there is a “report” of something, with no fucking evidence, then there’s no bloody point is there. How did we cope before anyway? I’ll tell you what there is a report of, there is a report of cunts fucking around with our motorways for everyone else’s “good” because somebody gave them a button and a big sign. Fuck these cunts!
Nominated by Cunting Rank Wags



